Ben has brought us a special, very limited edition flavor of Bernie Sanders-themed ice cream called "Bernie's Yearning." Weirdly sexual overtones aside, it is apparently just regular mint ice cream with a chocolate disk on top that represents the top 1% of Americans who enjoy the great majority of our country's wealth. Now, yes, there is a nice metaphor at work in the ice cream (breaking up the rich to make the rest worth blah blah blah), but here's where it goes wrong: It's dumb.

An ice cream flavor, even if it is working mostly as a metaphor, should still work as an ice cream flavor, but this one is bullshit and not worthy of an exciting presidential candidate like Bernie. This ice cream is just plain mint ice cream and a piece of chocolate. This is also known as a classic Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream, only you have to work to get it into its normal state. That's some bullshit and it undercuts Bernie's narrative. Bernie isn't about doing a ton of hard work to maintain the status quo. He wants to improve things. Hell, he says he wants a political revolution. Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream that is unmixed is hardly revolutionary. Maybe if Ben had included something other than two basic ice cream ingredients this might have been something special. Bernie and Ben Cohen are both from Vermont. How could Ben not at least throw in some maple syrup? Get creative.

Unfortunately if you want to try the flavor, Ben Cohen only made 40 pints of it. So chances are you won't get your hands on one. I guess if you want to get an idea of what it tastes like you'll have to go to the store and buy literally any pint of Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream.

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